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☀️ Good morning! It’s Tuesday, Feb. 25. This is Rob. Upper 60s in Fresno today, with mostly clear skies and overnight lows in the 40s.
🫖 The Foundation for Fresno Unified Students presents the second annual “Spill the Tea” event in recognition of Women’s History Month with a panel discussion at 11 a.m. March 6 at the Palomino Event Center. For more information and ticket prices, visit the foundation’s website here.
⛪New this morning — After the Trump administration lifted restrictions on immigration agents making arrests in sensitive areas, many Fresno-area pastors have begun discussing what it would mean for their churches to become sanctuaries. Check out the full story below from Fresnoland’s Gisselle Medina.
❎New this morning — On today’s edition of the Fresnolandia podcast, reporters Julianna Morano and Omar S. Rashad join hosts Danielle Bergstrom and Jordan Mattox to discuss the city’s upcoming special election AND the city’s $20 million budget deficit. Check out the full episode below.
🧑🌾 Fresnoland’s Gregory Weaver appeared on KVPR’s Central Valley Daily podcast this week to discuss his lengthy Fresnoland investigation into California’s Williamson Act, a decades-old tax break meant to protect the state’s precious farmland. Weaver’s reporting raises new questions about a program that numbers show provides more help to out-of–state businesses and corporate mega-farms than it does for locally-owned small and medium-sized farms. Check out Greg’s KVPR interview here.
And you can dig deeper into the Williamson Act investigation with us today! Join Fresnoland for a conversation with reporter Greg Weaver, and senior editor Rob Parsons, today (Tuesday, Feb. 25) from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Sun Stereo Warehouse. Register to attend here.
Fresnolandia Podcast: Will Fresno go for a public safety tax?
On this week’s Fresnolandia, Jordan and Danielle talk with Fresnoland’s government accountability reporter, Omar S. Rashad, about Fresno’s public safety funding crisis and early talks to go to the voters to finance the city’s major investment in more cops and firefighters. They also spoke with Julianna Morano, Fresnoland’s labor and […]
‘Civil act of disobedience.’ As Trump cracks down on immigration, Fresno church prepares to offer sanctuary
After the Trump administration lifted restrictions on immigration agents making arrests in sensitive areas, many local pastors have begun discussing what it would mean for their churches to become sanctuaries.
‘Not a legitimate prosecution.’ Fresno man plans to be the first to fight the city’s anti-camping law
Deep under Fresno’s courthouse, the stage was set this week for a potentially precedent-setting legal fight over the city’s contentious anti-camping law. On Thursday, Fresno city lawyers and defense attorney Kevin Little met two stories below the Van Ness Avenue courthouse to begin the city’s first criminal trial under its […]
